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Das neue 'South-East European Film Festival (SEEFF) à Berlin´ zeigt in der Zeit vom 26. bis 29. Mai 2016, 16 Filme aus 15 verschiedenen Ländern SüdOst Europas. Diese Filme bilden die Grundlage für eine Plattform auf der sich Kultur, speziell Film, Kulturpolitik, Wissenschaft und Rezeption begegnen. Beteiligte Länder sind: Albanien, Bosnien und Herzegowina, Bulgarien, Griechenland, Kosovo, Kroatien, Mazedonien, Moldawien, Montenegro, Rumänien, Serbien, Slowenien, Türkei, Ungarn und Zypern. Auf der Basis der gezeigten Filme wird im Rahmen des Festivals ein Symposium stattfinden, an dem Kulturschaffende, Kulturpolitiker und interessierte Bürger aus den beteiligten Ländern sowie namhafte Wissenschaftler von nationalen und internationalen Universitäten teilnehmen und über die Möglichkeit internationaler und richtungsweisender Netzwerke diskutieren. Die kulturelle Vielfalt wird durch einen an das Symposium anschließenden Street-Food-Market köstlich vertieft. Spezialitäten der Länder werden den Festivalteilnehmern und allen interessierten Gästen zur Verköstigung geboten. Wir laden Sie schon jetzt zur feierlichen Eröffnungsveranstaltung am 26. Mai 2016 in den Senatssaal der Humboldt Universität zu Berlin ein. |
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The new 'South-East European Film Festival (SEEFF) à Berlin´ between the 26th and the 29th of May 2016, will show 16 movies from 15 different countries of southeast Europe. These movies will create a basis for a platform on which culture, especially film, cultural politics, science and reception will meet. Part taking countries are: Albania, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Greece, Kosovo, Croatia, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Romania, Serbia, Slovenia, Turkey, Hungary and Cyprus. In the context of the festival a symposium will take place based on the shown movies, which will be attended by people and politicians engaged in the cultural sector and interested citizens from the countries named above, as well as notable scientists from national and international universities, who will debate the possibilities of international and trend-setting networks. The cultural diversity will exquisitely be further deepened through a Street-Food-Market subsequent to the symposium. The countries specialties will be presented for consummation to the festival attendants and all interested guests. We invite you to the solemn opening ceremony on the 26th of May 2016 at the „Senatssaal“ of the Humboldt University in Berlin. |
Croatia - "Naked Island", Director: Tiha Gudac
A documentary film about a family secret conceived decades ago on 'an island of broken souls' and a painful past slowly transforming into history.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Our everyday life”, Director: Ines Tanovic
Family Susic lives everyday Bosnian story. Father Muhamed (63) is employed in a reputable company; mother Marija (60) is retired. Son Sasa (35), who spent the war in Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives with his parents, while their daughter Senada (40) lives in Slovenia. Their life begins to fall apart because of father's dissatisfaction after his company is sold on the stock exchange, Sasa's negligent attitude towards work and family, Marija's breast cancer diagnose. When problems begin to line up Muhamed and Sasa realize that actually only family is important, that it is man's last oasis.
Serbia, “Legacy”, Director: Nemanja Cipranic
This is the story about Todor, hard working and ambitious student. He lives with his mother in very modest life. But, in a strange way, seemingly by accident, Višnja appears, desperate, pregnant girl who needs help and protection. Their relationship quickly turns into love, which is further complicated when Todor decide to establish a relationship with his father, a successful business man who has left them when Todor was a child. But who is Višnja, and who the bad guys are? Who are the heroes and whether there are any…
Hungary - “In a Vortex”, Director: Zoltán Siflis
The film, edited as a diary, is a documentary time capsule, a film-chronicle of the end of the millennium about the every days of the decade-long Balkan-Yugoslav armed conflicts. It is a documentary about the happenings and ambience of the civil war in the 1990s. In those years, many had already left the country fleeing from the misery and hyperinflation caused by armed conflicts. Principally, the film explores the period from the perspective of the ethnic Hungarian population in Yugoslavia-Serbia. This documentary addresses life situations and personal lives linked to these issues.
Macedonia - “3 Days in September”, Director: Darijan Pejovski
Two completely different women – a prostitute and an avenger, are forced by destiny to help each other in clearing their pasts. Marika kills a man in self-defense. She runs off to a train where she meets Jana - a quiet and shy woman in her late 30s. Jana travels to her cottage, deep in the mountains. That’s a chance for Marika to take a refuge. The days go by in quiet melancholy, and the suspicion between the two women as to their true intentions gets stronger. “Three Days in September” is a chamber, character driven thriller that deals with the consequences of sexual abuse in our society. It is most of all a character study where the two women retrieve, through their mutual relationship, step by step, their secrets and traumas.
Turkey, “Dolanma”, Director: Mr. Tunç Davut
As woodsmen, brothers KEMAL and CEMAL struggle with an uncertain future, living in a house inherited by their father, on the outskirts of a village. Kemal has always been a father to his brother. NALÂN, arrives one day with Kemal, and adopts the house as her own. Her presence soothes Cemal, who's shaken by his mother’s death.
Bulgaria, "The Woman of My Life", Director: Antoniy Donchev
Six year old Azad (a Kurd from Iraq) was engaged to his cousin Vian but after that the two kids were separated due to the political situation. At 19, Azad accidentally witnessed the murder of Vian’s father and had to leave the country. On board the ship to Europe he met a beautiful girl and fell in love with her without recognizing that she was his fiancée Vian. Vian, on her part, did not reveal herself to him because she thought he had been involved in the murder of her father and she tried to suppress her feelings towards Azad. She went to Germany; he had to remain in Bulgaria due to a false ID. Azad did enormous efforts to find Vian and he finally succeeded. This time she revealed herself to him because her love proved to be stronger than her doubts. Unfortunately Vian was already involved in a deadly game being obsessed with the aim to take revenge for her father. Azad made everything to stop and save her even if he would never see her again. Is love going to prevail once again over terror?
Slovenia - "Remembering the others", Director: Ana Cigon
Remembering the Others is a documentary about the meaning and power of public monuments. In the film students, artists, theoreticians and activists from Prishtina, Kosovo talk about the meaning of monuments. Which people have the privilege to be represented in monuments? Why there are almost no monuments dedicated to women in Kosovo? Which other people (marginalized groups) and stories are excluded in such monuments?
The film states that if the (hi)stories of marginalized groups are hushed, and the (hi)stories that have visibility are not questioned, the result will always be a misleading sense of normality. A status quo that creates a platform that gives certain groups the push to the top positions and other groups the push to oblivion, all accompanied by a deceptive sense of fairness and normality.
The film epilogue opens way to ideas about what kind of monuments people want for the future.
Kosovo – “Retirement Day”, Director: Fisnik Muji
Agim Kryeziu, a 65 year- old, physics professor in gymnasium high school, is in his last day of teaching. His students and the school staff is preparing a farewell party for him. Everything is going perfectly well, when a night before his retirement, he experiences one of the technology tricks from his students, so we find him in the hospital “fighting for life”.
Greece, “Silent”, Director: Yorgos Gkikapeppas
Among the constantly talking animals of a herd, the basic rule of normality is the theater of conversation. When a young animal loses its voice and goes into hiding, the talking herd can’t accept its weakness and follows the rule, speaking to it using monologues. The young animal remains silent and the talking herd stands confused and unable to decide whether it’s really sick or just pretending. But as the silent, isolated animal struggles to get its voice back, the talking animals surround its cage and the most distrustful of them attacks.
Romania, “Billion Star Hotel”, Director: Alecs Nastoiu
A little homeless boy, learns how things are going in real life, from his mentor, Papa Rudi.
Every day, we’re faced with the following exercise: to give the world around us a certain cue. To smile, to take everything as a joke, to laugh out loud, or to allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by reality. To be painfully aware of the distance between us and our dreams, of the obstacles, and the fact that we are alone all the time. Some choose to escape, to build their own world, with it’s own rules, with the memories of fairy-tales and dreams that really come to be. A world where three friends are brought together by the same destination. Or maybe, it all comes down to daydreaming. And feeling the empty spaces with music. It all depends on how you choose to see things. In black, in white, or in sync with the beat. Billion Star Hotel, for each viewer, a different story.
Albania - "Bota", Director: Iris Elezi, Thomas Logoreci
Albania, present day. At the edge of a haunted swamp, Juli, Nora and Ben work together in an isolated village where their families were exiled during their country’s intense communist rule. Under the disapproving eyes of Juli, Ben juggles an affair with Nora while dreaming of expanding his café into the Balkan big time. Their quiet world ceases to exist when a highway crew begins to widen the road nearby. Juli falls for engineer Mili but worries about her ailing and confused grandmother, Noje. As the new road approaches, the village inhabitants have one last glorious night of fireworks and celebration. But when the dawn arrives, Juli, Ben and Nora must face a shared secret from their traumatic past.
Croatia, “All the best”, Director: Snjezana Tribuson
Pastry-shop worker Verica, opera singer Brankica and Martin (Spaniard) are the protagonists of this film-story about loneliness and search for love. Besides the three of them, we will also get to know two nurses who think a lot about men, one farmer with rather unusual farming talents, a gravely ill woman of an unusual sexual orientation, a handyman who adores all „pretty women“, and we will watch how an accidental series of events entwines their destinies and makes unsolvable situations solvable. It is rather unlikely that several cockroaches, beet root soup and an opera aria can play an important role in all that, but in this story they do.
Cyprus - "CONVEYOR BELT", Director: Alexia Roider
A man lives alone with a turtle. However, he has a secret passion. He takes home forgotten, unclaimed and lost luggage from the airport where he works. In the safety of his own world, he methodically examines the contents of each luggage and recreates the characters of the unknown owners. This ritual has become his life’s purpose and his sole connection to the outside world. Until one day, a suitcase comes along and changes everything.
Montenegro - “A matter of will”, Dušan Kasalica
A Matter of Will follows a group of chubby children in a weight loss camp, located on a seaside resort. Far from the city, their authoritarian instructor tries to teach the kids his “Men’s Health” ideology.
Moldova - "What a Wonderful World", Director: Anatol Durbala
After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.
A documentary film about a family secret conceived decades ago on 'an island of broken souls' and a painful past slowly transforming into history.
Bosnia and Herzegovina, “Our everyday life”, Director: Ines Tanovic
Family Susic lives everyday Bosnian story. Father Muhamed (63) is employed in a reputable company; mother Marija (60) is retired. Son Sasa (35), who spent the war in Army of Bosnia and Herzegovina, lives with his parents, while their daughter Senada (40) lives in Slovenia. Their life begins to fall apart because of father's dissatisfaction after his company is sold on the stock exchange, Sasa's negligent attitude towards work and family, Marija's breast cancer diagnose. When problems begin to line up Muhamed and Sasa realize that actually only family is important, that it is man's last oasis.
Serbia, “Legacy”, Director: Nemanja Cipranic
This is the story about Todor, hard working and ambitious student. He lives with his mother in very modest life. But, in a strange way, seemingly by accident, Višnja appears, desperate, pregnant girl who needs help and protection. Their relationship quickly turns into love, which is further complicated when Todor decide to establish a relationship with his father, a successful business man who has left them when Todor was a child. But who is Višnja, and who the bad guys are? Who are the heroes and whether there are any…
Hungary - “In a Vortex”, Director: Zoltán Siflis
The film, edited as a diary, is a documentary time capsule, a film-chronicle of the end of the millennium about the every days of the decade-long Balkan-Yugoslav armed conflicts. It is a documentary about the happenings and ambience of the civil war in the 1990s. In those years, many had already left the country fleeing from the misery and hyperinflation caused by armed conflicts. Principally, the film explores the period from the perspective of the ethnic Hungarian population in Yugoslavia-Serbia. This documentary addresses life situations and personal lives linked to these issues.
Macedonia - “3 Days in September”, Director: Darijan Pejovski
Two completely different women – a prostitute and an avenger, are forced by destiny to help each other in clearing their pasts. Marika kills a man in self-defense. She runs off to a train where she meets Jana - a quiet and shy woman in her late 30s. Jana travels to her cottage, deep in the mountains. That’s a chance for Marika to take a refuge. The days go by in quiet melancholy, and the suspicion between the two women as to their true intentions gets stronger. “Three Days in September” is a chamber, character driven thriller that deals with the consequences of sexual abuse in our society. It is most of all a character study where the two women retrieve, through their mutual relationship, step by step, their secrets and traumas.
Turkey, “Dolanma”, Director: Mr. Tunç Davut
As woodsmen, brothers KEMAL and CEMAL struggle with an uncertain future, living in a house inherited by their father, on the outskirts of a village. Kemal has always been a father to his brother. NALÂN, arrives one day with Kemal, and adopts the house as her own. Her presence soothes Cemal, who's shaken by his mother’s death.
Bulgaria, "The Woman of My Life", Director: Antoniy Donchev
Six year old Azad (a Kurd from Iraq) was engaged to his cousin Vian but after that the two kids were separated due to the political situation. At 19, Azad accidentally witnessed the murder of Vian’s father and had to leave the country. On board the ship to Europe he met a beautiful girl and fell in love with her without recognizing that she was his fiancée Vian. Vian, on her part, did not reveal herself to him because she thought he had been involved in the murder of her father and she tried to suppress her feelings towards Azad. She went to Germany; he had to remain in Bulgaria due to a false ID. Azad did enormous efforts to find Vian and he finally succeeded. This time she revealed herself to him because her love proved to be stronger than her doubts. Unfortunately Vian was already involved in a deadly game being obsessed with the aim to take revenge for her father. Azad made everything to stop and save her even if he would never see her again. Is love going to prevail once again over terror?
Slovenia - "Remembering the others", Director: Ana Cigon
Remembering the Others is a documentary about the meaning and power of public monuments. In the film students, artists, theoreticians and activists from Prishtina, Kosovo talk about the meaning of monuments. Which people have the privilege to be represented in monuments? Why there are almost no monuments dedicated to women in Kosovo? Which other people (marginalized groups) and stories are excluded in such monuments?
The film states that if the (hi)stories of marginalized groups are hushed, and the (hi)stories that have visibility are not questioned, the result will always be a misleading sense of normality. A status quo that creates a platform that gives certain groups the push to the top positions and other groups the push to oblivion, all accompanied by a deceptive sense of fairness and normality.
The film epilogue opens way to ideas about what kind of monuments people want for the future.
Kosovo – “Retirement Day”, Director: Fisnik Muji
Agim Kryeziu, a 65 year- old, physics professor in gymnasium high school, is in his last day of teaching. His students and the school staff is preparing a farewell party for him. Everything is going perfectly well, when a night before his retirement, he experiences one of the technology tricks from his students, so we find him in the hospital “fighting for life”.
Greece, “Silent”, Director: Yorgos Gkikapeppas
Among the constantly talking animals of a herd, the basic rule of normality is the theater of conversation. When a young animal loses its voice and goes into hiding, the talking herd can’t accept its weakness and follows the rule, speaking to it using monologues. The young animal remains silent and the talking herd stands confused and unable to decide whether it’s really sick or just pretending. But as the silent, isolated animal struggles to get its voice back, the talking animals surround its cage and the most distrustful of them attacks.
Romania, “Billion Star Hotel”, Director: Alecs Nastoiu
A little homeless boy, learns how things are going in real life, from his mentor, Papa Rudi.
Every day, we’re faced with the following exercise: to give the world around us a certain cue. To smile, to take everything as a joke, to laugh out loud, or to allow ourselves to be overwhelmed by reality. To be painfully aware of the distance between us and our dreams, of the obstacles, and the fact that we are alone all the time. Some choose to escape, to build their own world, with it’s own rules, with the memories of fairy-tales and dreams that really come to be. A world where three friends are brought together by the same destination. Or maybe, it all comes down to daydreaming. And feeling the empty spaces with music. It all depends on how you choose to see things. In black, in white, or in sync with the beat. Billion Star Hotel, for each viewer, a different story.
Albania - "Bota", Director: Iris Elezi, Thomas Logoreci
Albania, present day. At the edge of a haunted swamp, Juli, Nora and Ben work together in an isolated village where their families were exiled during their country’s intense communist rule. Under the disapproving eyes of Juli, Ben juggles an affair with Nora while dreaming of expanding his café into the Balkan big time. Their quiet world ceases to exist when a highway crew begins to widen the road nearby. Juli falls for engineer Mili but worries about her ailing and confused grandmother, Noje. As the new road approaches, the village inhabitants have one last glorious night of fireworks and celebration. But when the dawn arrives, Juli, Ben and Nora must face a shared secret from their traumatic past.
Croatia, “All the best”, Director: Snjezana Tribuson
Pastry-shop worker Verica, opera singer Brankica and Martin (Spaniard) are the protagonists of this film-story about loneliness and search for love. Besides the three of them, we will also get to know two nurses who think a lot about men, one farmer with rather unusual farming talents, a gravely ill woman of an unusual sexual orientation, a handyman who adores all „pretty women“, and we will watch how an accidental series of events entwines their destinies and makes unsolvable situations solvable. It is rather unlikely that several cockroaches, beet root soup and an opera aria can play an important role in all that, but in this story they do.
Cyprus - "CONVEYOR BELT", Director: Alexia Roider
A man lives alone with a turtle. However, he has a secret passion. He takes home forgotten, unclaimed and lost luggage from the airport where he works. In the safety of his own world, he methodically examines the contents of each luggage and recreates the characters of the unknown owners. This ritual has become his life’s purpose and his sole connection to the outside world. Until one day, a suitcase comes along and changes everything.
Montenegro - “A matter of will”, Dušan Kasalica
A Matter of Will follows a group of chubby children in a weight loss camp, located on a seaside resort. Far from the city, their authoritarian instructor tries to teach the kids his “Men’s Health” ideology.
Moldova - "What a Wonderful World", Director: Anatol Durbala
After two years spent as a student in Boston, a 22-year-old visits his native Moldova. It is April 2009. People gather in the streets of Chisinau, the call having spread through social networking sites. They are demonstrating against the communist authorities who falsified the election results. They seize and plunder the parliament and presidential buildings. The demonstrators carry away documents, furniture and office equipment. Our protagonist is coming from a friend's home carrying his own computer monitor. He is mistaken for a demonstrator, brutally beaten up by the police and taken to the police station. His interrogator is an experienced major. The authorities can do anything. Based on real events, the film asks questions about freedom, justice and the price of human life.
